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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1910
Page
2
Today marks the 68th anniversary of William McKinley's birth with carnations worn as a tribute. Citizens observe the date by sporting the flower in memory of the late president.
Edward H. Carr of 109 Boston Street and George Freeman of West Sixth Street South Boston were arraigned on charges of assaulting Ernest E. Smith a Storrow porter last election day at a drug store. Carr held on 300 dollars bond Freeman on 100 dollars for continuance.
The House committee on elections did not meet today in Washington. No further public hearings are planned and a final report will go to Congress after the investigative board completes several meetings.
The Gloucester schooner Selma under Captain Colson arrived in Portland from the Banks with 25000 pounds of halibut the largest catch here in months. The cargo value reached 3500 dollars. The Selma sailed from Gloucester in January.
Sarah EF DeMerritt testified before Judge King that she tracked her husband Walter A DeMerritt to a room in Greenwich Park where he conspired with a younger woman. She said suspicions began years earlier during her illness when she found him with the attractive nurse.
Mrs. De Merritt testified that she and her husband lived in Ware Monson Brookline and Boston. She recounted his move to 14 Greenwich Park and an evening when a strange woman occupied his bed. A neighbor described a blonde in a pale blue negligee. Judge King postponed ruling, needing corroboration before a divorce.
Boston council members elect plan eight consecutive evening visits to different city sections to hear residents on improvements. They will use the former Common Council chamber and reestablish clerk of committees and city messenger departments, per corporation counsel.
A petition to President Taft requests executive clemency for Charles W. Morse imprisoned in Atlanta for 15 years on banking law violations. The petition argues the offense was technical and circulated among chamber of commerce members in the trade room.
Democratic leaders from most wards visited John F McDonald campaign manager for Mayor-elect Fitzgerald at a Quincy House dinner. Fitzgerald arrived late and thanked attendees for their work in a short speech.
East Cambridge Probate Court heard testimony in the Daniel Blake Russell identity case. The ranchman claiming to be Daniel Blake Russell said he finished high school at Melrose High School and had no schooling after graduation. Respondents began proving he attended Comer's Commercial College in 1879 and 1880.
A court session reviewed handwriting evidence linking Daniel B. Russell signatures to older school papers and Rousseau letters. Professor Davenport testified the same hand wrote the disputed exhibits and the mother and family letters, while noting some items differ from other samples.
In Cambridge three Burke & Co. shops at 18 School Street 843 Washington Street and Harvard Square showcase season sale prices. Suits and overcoats once 45 49 and 30 dollars are reduced to 25 dollars, drawing shoppers to the windows.
Advertisement claims a single dose cure for a cold using Bromo Quinine with signature of E. W. Grove. It markets the product as used worldwide and priced at 250.
The Chinese Masons of Boston and vicinity have opened their new three story brick headquarters at 6 Tyler Street. Dedicatory exercises drew prominent Chinese from New England and New York. The event runs through Feb 1 with a closing address on Masonry and reform in China by Dr Soon Moon, formerly of the city.
Lena Caswell a 49 year old married resident of Dorchester was saved from gas fumes in her home on Fairmount Street. Neighbors were alerted by the odor and John Abbott entered through a window to find Mrs Caswell unconscious on the kitchen floor with a stop cock of the range partly open.
President Taft told the Periodical Publishers Association of America they should await a House committee inquiry on second class mail reclassification. He noted magazines now pay one cent per pound postage though delivery costs to the government exceed nine cents, urging a fairer share.
The publishers association banquet at the New Willard Hotel drew 300+ guests including Senators Representatives and diplomats arriving from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore. President Taft spoke praising evidence based judgment while defending Hitchcock and Ballinger amid magazine criticism. Cyrus Curtis and leading editors attended along with the Italian ambassador and Speaker Cannon with a multi course menu.
An advertising piece extolls digestion and nutrition, praising Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets as the best aid after meals. It claims tablets digest 3000 grains of food, builds new tissue, and strengthens resistance to disease, offering a 50 cent box and a free sample via postal card to Marshall Michigan.
London reports that Liberals now hold the same number of seats as Unionists, with independents not aligned with Labor or Irish Nationalists. The Liberal majority appears secure unless Irish Nationalists or Labor oppose further.
The piece notes a possible Balfour bid for the Irish vote backed by tariff reform, signaling a potential Liberal defeat. It cites a Daily Telegraph leader and Fortnightly Review, with Churchill seen as likely to press the home office and Birrell’s Irish secretary role in question. Arnold Ward’s Hertfordshire win renews Unionist momentum.
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